You know Myst, but do you remember the CD-ROM’s other killer app? The 7th Guest is now 30 years old, and it’s getting remade in 3D for the first time to sell you on Meta’s Quest 2 (and just-announced Quest 3) headsets. It’ll still have something akin to full-motion video for its actors, too: volumetric video capture.
It happened to me, and the stakes are higher today than ever before — the FCC’s latest broadband maps, released today, will help determine where $41.6B in federal funding goes. The NTIA, which dishes out the dollars, says it’s “confident that with this data as a baseline, we will be able to effectively allocate funds by the end of June.”
Check the map for lies. Tell a friend.
[fcc.gov]
Nvidia just announced its DGX GH200 at Computex. It’s got 256 of its new “Grace Hopper Superchips” for an exaflop of AI performance — and contains 150 miles of optical fiber and over 2,000 fans. Google, Meta, and Microsoft will be “evaluating” it, though not necessarily purchasing kits: they tend to build their own compute clouds, even if they contain loads of Nvidia GPUs.
Nvidia says it’s 2.2x faster than a last-gen DGX H100 cluster at GPT3 training, as one example.
Say it with me: Arm doesn’t sell chips. But it does design CPU and GPU cores its licensees can optionally use. What’s new?
Cortex-X4 (big CPU): 15% more perf, 40% less power
Cortex-A720 and A520: 20% and 22% more efficient, respectively
Immortalis-G720 (the GPU): 15% more perf, 40% lighter on memory bandwidth
Last time, they only came together in the MediaTek Dimensity 9200, which arrived in the Vivo X90, X90 Pro and Oppo Find X6.
The first device with a Frore AirJet will go on sale later this year. You can read more about it in my full story.
Also see: Final Fantasy VII’s Sister Ray, this epic Star Wars TIE Advanced, and, uh, all of these.
